Children and Young Peoples Clinical Pathway Lead

Children and Young Peoples Clinical Pathway Lead

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)

Please note - There are various bases in Hull, East Riding, North and North East Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and York to be confirmed at appointment along with Remote working from home & multiple sites across ICS geography.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? This is an exciting opportunity to drive change at a strategic level & be at the forefront of leading clinical transformation for children & young people.

Humber & North Yorkshire ICB are excited & ambitious about radically improving the health & wellbeing of our children & young people. As part of the nursing & quality function of healthcare & partnerships, the children & young people's transformation team are driving change to make this happen.

This is a new role, and the successful candidate will be supporting, and leading on some areas of clinical pathway development across the system; supporting the system to ensure evidence-based care is being delivered, reducing variation and improving quality and safety. An example of a potential workstream is bladder and bowel pathways which will require working across primary care, healthy child teams, secondary and specialist providers as well as VCSE and early years and schools.

Main duties of the job

As Children and Young Peoples clinical pathways lead you will work as part of a dynamic children and young people's team within the quality and nursing directorate of HNY ICB. The post holder will contribute and lead on clinical transformation including clinical pathway reviews and integration agenda, supporting the ICB in ensuring equitable services across the geographical patch to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people and parents/families. The post holder will work closely with the Senior Quality Lead for CYP to contribute towards planning, policy, strategy development, commissioning and assurance to ensure that local, regional, and national standards are achieved.

With support and direction from Senior Quality Lead for CYP, the post holder will, in line with the ICS, regional and national priorities, work closely with partners to translate policy and strategy into proposals, delivery plans, and work with colleagues to develop service specifications, contract negotiations and monitoring and assurance processes. This role requires the post holder to lead on clinical pathway transformation and integration work programmes within the children and young people's portfolio.

About us

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB is a statutory organisation accountable for NHS spend and performance for 1.7 million people. The ICB is a core member of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, alongside NHS providers, local councils, health and care providers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.

The golden ambition of the ICB is to radically improve the health and wellbeing of all children and young people living in our communities. This is supported through our children and young people's strategy and delivery plan.

The geography covers North & Northeast Lincolnshire, Hull, East Riding, York & North Yorkshire and has a diverse population across urban, rural and coastal areas.

The children & young peoples transformation team is part of the nursing and quality directorate and sits within a function of healthcare and partnerships. The team also works with clinical leads across primary and secondary care and through a spectrum of clinical networks.

We are friendly and supportive and are excited to be welcoming new team members. We offer excellent clinical, managerial and programme support and supervision and nurture creativity and new ways of working.

Job responsibilities

This is a new role, and the successful candidate will be supporting, and leading on some areas of clinical pathway development across the system; supporting the system to ensure evidence-based care is being delivered, reducing variation and improving quality and safety. An example of a potential workstream is bladder and bowel pathways which will require working across primary care, healthy child teams, secondary and specialist providers as well as VCSE and early years and schools.

This is an incredible opportunity for a registered nurse who is keen to develop into a strategic role & contribute to the transformation of services to make a difference at a system-wide level. Quality & safety are at the heart of improving outcomes and we use policy, guidance, business intelligence and impact methodologies to underpin our work. Engagement with children, young people and their families along with our partners in other organisations is also an essential component of transformation.

Addressing inequalities is the golden thread of all our work and the successful candidate would need to have a good understanding of health inequalities including CYP Core20plus and the determinants of health.

The role would suit either an experienced children's nurse, public health nurse and/or a primary care nurse who can evidence excellent knowledge, skills and expertise in these areas. You must be passionate about transformation and be able to broaden your horizons and be creative about the art of the possible. A working knowledge of the latest policy and guidance will be essential.

There will be an expectation for the post holder to lead on key developments of clinical pathway transformation to reduce variation across the ICS geography. A whole system approach will be underpinned through integration across primary, secondary, community services, local authority and education services, public health and the voluntary sector. This will include a cycle of audit to monitor progress and identify risks to delivery.

You will be expected to work independently as well as part of the team and have a leadership role in driving change. This is likely to include organising and attending meetings (sometimes chairing), preparing and presenting in a number of forums (virtual or face to face) and developing new relationships across organisational boundaries. You must be able to demonstrate confidence and clarity in a variety of situations and be able to build positive relationships across the system to support effective delivery.

This role requires the post holder to lead on clinical pathway transformation and integration work programmes within the children and young people's portfolio. The focus will be primarily (but not exclusively) on aligned and integrated working across children and young people's work programmes in acute and community provision and will require post holder to work in partnership with colleagues in a variety of parts of the system including the Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism collaborative, education colleagues and healthy child services. The post holder will be required to develop new and unique plans in partnership with system partners and will require the post holder to manage and enable continuous improvement and promote innovation. The approach of the post holder will be outcomes focused, ensuring the best patient-centred care for our local population, with a specific focus on prevention of ill health, reducing inequalities and supporting the commissioning of an integrated community-based care system. Some examples of areas within the post holder's portfolio include; bowel and bladder support/services, transition to adult services, cerebral palsy pathways.

You are encouraged to ring Louise Wootton to find out more about this exciting opportunity!

Person Specification

Skills and competencies

• Excellent communication and interpretation skills.
• Excellent and well-developed negotiation skills.
• Political astuteness to understand the interests, dynamics and motivations of key stakeholders in the commissioning agenda.
• Ability to prioritise to meet changing demands and tight deadlines.
• Understand the interface of primary and secondary care.
• Understand NHS commissioning processes.
• Good planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to interpret data and build complex management reports.
• Ability to think and act strategically and laterally maintaining a clear overview.
• Diplomatic and tactful, assertive when appropriate e.g. in order to achieve results with and through others.
• Experience of developing documentation to support delivery of objectives.
• Evidence of leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent level of knowledge.
• NMC Registered Nurse - (Children's nurse or Adult nurse with experience in pediatrics or Specialist Community Public Health Nurse).
• Experience of working in children's health.
• Clinical governance experience within the NHS.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through experience of clinical quality improvement methodologies including the development of measurable quality improvement metrics and clinical audit, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Knowledge of clinical performance management including KPI development and monitoring, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Understanding of the evidence base, ensuring effectiveness of health care.
• Working knowledge of current NHS quality agenda.
• Management qualification or evidence of management development.
• Evidence of professional development in specialist area.

Experience

• Significant management experience within the NHS.
• Knowledge of quality, safety and risk management.
• Experience of change management.
• Experience of building effective and productive relationships with a wide range of people at all levels.
• Knowledge and involvement of service planning and development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)